Big If True @bigif.org News, current events, markets, politics, tech, and the stories worth following. Sources first, discussion always. #News #CurrentEvents #Politics #BigIfTrue
NeuroWinter @neurowinter.com Reformed #AI & #MLOps tinkerer turned #SRE, now keeping #opensource databases alive.
Long-time #AppSec enthusiast, accidental sysadmin, and fueled almost entirely by espresso.
Blogging sporadically at NeuroWinter.com
Eunice Demi @eunicedemi.bsky.social Living between reality and whatever book I'm currently obsessed with
Melody Chat @melodychat.org Melody Chat is a Discord API compatible open source chat platform!
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Lydia Lukidis @lydialukidis.bsky.social Award winning #kidlit author & workshop presenter (K-6)
GROUCHO ('25 & '26)
UP, UP HIGH (Capstone '25)
DEEP, DEEP DOWN (Capstone '23)
Crystal Kite winner & Silver Birch Express Honor
Becky Masson @easyrecipesdash.com Easy, #healthy & delicious #recipes to inspire your daily #cooking! 🍜🍽️👨🍳📸
🌐 easyrecipesdash.com
#food #foodsky #foodie #diet #dinner #lunch #breakfast #drinks #wellness #fitness #lifestyle #cats #birds #gardening #nature #photography 🌿🌱🌾
Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
EDM forever 🪩 Write Your Heart Out ❤️
Visit me at kirstenmilesauthor.com 💕
🏳️🌈🇸🇪💋✈️⛵️🌊
I do not read DMs here.
Ira Socol @irasocol.bsky.social Education Innovation Leader. Believer in Children. Ex-Public School CTO. Ex-NYPD. UDL+ champion. Author of Designed to Fail [education] and The Drool Room [fiction]. Co-author of Timeless Learning [education]. 
Danny Neville @dnevillebooks.bsky.social Children’s author, educator, husband, dad, he/him 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 LITTLE BEE: THE STORYTIME EXTRAVAGANZA Aug ‘26
Your Man Forrest @yourmanf.bsky.social Sci-fi and fantasy author; thinker of silly thoughts.
https://forrestwilliams.substack.com/ - My silly thoughts
https://www.pulsarpublishers.net/ -My publishing company
Leigh Therriault💫 @leightherriault.bsky.social Canadian writer & poet 🌙✨️ AuDHD ☆
A STRANGE PLACE FOR A GHOST 👻 coming Sep 2027 from Orca Book Publishers 📚
Rep: Liz Nealon at Great Dog Literary
leightherriault.com
Erin Alladin @erinalladin.bsky.social Author, editor, gardener, presenter. Co-host of @plantsalwayswin.com . Books where literacy meets outdoor education. Books on gentle gardening for disabled bodies. https://erin-alladin.com
RAWilliams @rawilliams.bsky.social One curious little Curiosity Rover, wandering this strange new Planet BlueSky. Writer, editor, designer, activist, ex-archaeologist but still forever digging stuff up. #BlueWave #DarkWoke #FuckTrump #FuckAI #FuckGOP
⛩️ 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊 ⛩️ @deathbyhibachi.bsky.social Art and trivia for headcases like you
⚱️ 火鉢による死亡 ⚱️
Claire Delune 🦄 @clairedelune.bsky.social Queer author of speculative fiction whose work has been featured in various outlets including HuffPost. Has a freakish depth of knowledge about animals and a worrying fixation on unicorns. Resides in Washington, where this sort of thing is encouraged. 🦄
Jesse O Benitez - Writing @jesseobenitez.bsky.social Lifelong reader & writer
I'm here to make friends (especially people who write/read books) please reach out 📚📝✍️
I hope to make a better world for everybody
Never let them get you down!
https://linktr.ee/JesseOBenitez
Susan A @susanarscott.bsky.social 
Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social querying my speculative coming-of-rage novel WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN |Postdoc at Georgia Tech | 2026 Lambda Literary Fellow | words in Black Warrior Review, Minnesota Review, Fabulist, Pushcart Prize Nominee https://galenbunting.substack.com/
August Chalmers @augustchalmers.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Reader
https://linktr.ee/augustchalmers
Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
St Louis Atheists @stlouisatheists.bsky.social "If you wish to make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe" Carl Sagan @rsslmo.bsky.social @atheists.org @ffrf.org @nickfish.me @ethicalstl.org @riatheists.bsky.social ⚛️ 📚💙🐕 🚭 Team Site
Melinda Layten - Writes about Hazel an Immortal Cat @mlayten.bsky.social What the Fire Didn't Take - Debut Middle Grade Novel about 2 autistic girls 2000 years apart and the cat who knew them both. Modern day Minnesota meets Library of Alexandria and what it means to learn and be heard. #Autism #Querying
@katemdavis.bsky.social @katemdavis.bsky.social 
Cindy Schwind @cindyschwind1.bsky.social Reader! BookPosse Member! Indie Book Crawl! Friday Night Raffle! Retired Reading Specialist!
Erik Talkin @eriktalkin.bsky.social Author. YA novel Private School Punk (full-cast audiobook, 2026 IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year). Lulu & the Hunger Monster (ILA Social Justice Award). MFA from VCFA. Punk, audiobooks, illustrated fiction, book-connected soundtracks.
Maya P. Lim @mayaplim.bsky.social Designer, author, illustrator. THE STORY OF LEO LIONNI (Viking ’27). GHOST GIGGLES (Scholastic ‘27). BEAR HUGS (Scholastic ‘26). Rep: Andrea Morrison @ Writers House.
Repost! Repost! @repostrepost.bsky.social Frederick Post: Amateur, Dabbler and Dilettante. Mostly Reposts + Images + Occasional AI Slop.
M. Rob @oedipalschmedipal.bsky.social In the sober light of day it's a little too bright out |
Will be mean to people you hate for food | Writer | Ball Knower
Joe Hessert @joehessert.bsky.social Seeking Representation for my Middle Grade Fantasy Debut | MFA, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
joehessert.com
Toddling The Stacks @toddlingthestacks.com You should be reading #kidlit, and we'll help you see why.
A children's literature podcast by award-winning educator and Princeton-educated literature PhD @seangill.net
New episodes drop on Mondays!
http://www.ToddlingTheStacks.com
@theresepieczynski.bsky.social @theresepieczynski.bsky.social 
North of November @north-of-november.bsky.social Electrical engineer & entrepreneur. Author of Built to Last. I write about business, books, and the human stories in between. → minetuut.wordpress.com
Miya T. Beck @miyatbeck.bsky.social Author of The Pearl Hunter and Through a Clouded Mirror | Oxford comma convert | recovering journalist | obsessed with cats and kitsune
https://www.miyabeck.com 
Laurie Smith Murphy @lauriemurph.bsky.social #MG #PB #AmWriting #AmQuerying #SCBWI #NewEngland
#50PreciousWords Winner '22, #RevPit Winner '25
hiking, traveling, theatre
Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social I’m deeply immersed in the intersections of neuroscience, ethnobotany, & pharmacological research, I thrive on leveraging science to enhance human well-being and longevity. After years of scientific writing I’m writing fiction and a cinematic memoir.
Alison Weiss @alioop7.bsky.social Editorial consultant at Alison Weiss Editorial. Causing all sorts of mayhem in the publishing world.
www.alisonweisseditorial.com
Aimee L. Gross @aimeegross.bsky.social MG and YA author with two books out in the world : “If Crows Know Best” and “No Mercy From Crows” with more to come! SCBWI , Kansas Authors Club.
Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social Author of INVISIBLE BOY, winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, BITTERSWEET (spring 2027) and I JUST HAVE TO RACE ALL THESE GHOSTS (summer 2027). Host of @TheTyee podcast. East Vancouver.
Joan Timmings @joantimmings.bsky.social Writer and aspiring author of picture books, middle grade, and some for adults, too. Love quirky kids, reluctant heroes, and poetry and being caught off-guard by a surprise laugh.
Celia Cataldo @ccat7.bsky.social ✍️Writer with a focus on middle grade. It's always Halloween in my 🖤. Lover of animal sanctuaries 🐾, meteor showers ✨, & oddities. LGBTQIA 🌈, vegetarian, & frequent 🩸 donor. Always open to a good book recommendation 📚
Michelle Nott @michnott.bsky.social Bilingual 🇺🇸🇫🇷 Educator & Children’s Book Author, Enchanted Lion Books.
https://linktr.ee/MichelleNott?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@pamwrites84.bsky.social @pamwrites84.bsky.social 
Hey, Jim Hill! @heyjimhill.bsky.social Word nerd, pixel wrangler. Writes funny on purpose.
VCFA WCYA SCBWI
www.heyjimhill.com
Melissa Murray @melissamurray.bsky.social Author + Illustrator + Artist
SCBWI | CBIG | 12x12
PBParty 2024 Illustration Showcase HM
https://melissamurray.net
#kidlitart #kidlit
Mary R. @amerrywrath.bsky.social I write quips, not tragedies. |she/her| VCFA's Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA '26 | books |TTRPGs | movies | nature/science shenanigans | new to Bluesky, not the internet
(pfp by Makowka/picrew)
Art commission carrd-> https://keirelo.carrd.co/
Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
Jenn Gaulding @jenngauldingbooks.bsky.social #PB Writer 📖✏️
Math & Science Educator 🧮🌳💙
Member of 12x12 and SCBWI Southern Breeze
Halloweensie, SunWriteFun, SpringFlingKidlit '25 Winner
Valentiny, WKLN '25 HM
samira is querying her MG fantasy🍉🍉🍉 @goodsamiratan.bsky.social 🇬🇭 Professional over-thinker and aspiring author|she/her/hers|Black|Muslim|RTM mentee-2025
🇵🇸 Free Palestine
🇨🇩 Free Congo
🇸🇩 Free Sudan
💜💜💜
Chareon Vulpecula 🍎✨| VGen comms open @itschareon.site Illusion Fox Creetor | VTuber 🏳️⚧️ | Age: late 30s | Writer Content Arc | Art: #vulpsketchula NSFW🔞: #VULGARtula | Commissions: http://VGen.co/ChareonVulpecula | She/Her
Sue Sutherland, Author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER @suemt.bsky.social Debut picture book author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER, granola girl, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, 12x12, Montana SCBWI
Coming Soon - HOW HANNAH GOT HER LUMP OF COAL (2026), TWELVE DAYS AT YELLOWSTONE (2027), & NOTHING BUT NET TROUBLE
Julie Hampton @juliehampton20.bsky.social #kidlit author/illustrator/architect Debut PB: Betty Builds It (West Margin Press). STEM/robots 🤖
Yes, thank you, I will have another cup of coffee. Thrift store junkie. Activist/Feminist. 💙💙💙 Just trying to hang on right now. #PostcardsToVoters #crochet
Nadia Ali @nadiaawriter.bsky.social KidLit Author:
RAISAH AND THE BOAT TRIP (2023),
HUMPHREY THE EGG_SPLORER (2023)
THE ANIMAL SOCIETIES SERIES (2023)
12x12 Challenge
Paula McLaughlin @paulakaymac.bsky.social #MG #YA #amquerying #KidLit #writinglife Nature is magical. 📚✍️☕️🍫
Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social Australian writer of fantasy and romance stories about LGBTQIA+ characters with lots of angst and banter.
COMING IN available now.
https://michelleogilvy.com/
Sheri Bentley @sheribbooks.bsky.social Writer. Literacy Coach. Lover of people and words. #SCBWI #KidsChoice-Winner #KidLitVibes-Winner #50PreciousWords-HM #KidlitChuckleChallenge-HM Pub'd in @DirigibleBalloon
@whothefami.bsky.social @whothefami.bsky.social Hierarchy only exists in the minds of those who have not broken free of such illusions. https://whothefami.substack.com
Melissa Rea Author 📚📚📚 @melrea.bsky.social Four novels written. Fun novels about strong women with a pinch of magic. https:// @iquitcigs.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social Team Site StL Mo 🚭
ithard❉koner @yukikona.bsky.social ชื่อ ไอซ์ อายุ 18 มาจอยดิสผมได้นะครับ อยู่ตรงปักหมุด
Twitter x.com/ithardkoner
Discord discord.gg/XnwJ927wuz
Canada Fiction Fest @canadafictionfest.bsky.social Like a great big online book fair, featuring Canadian fiction books and authors from all across the country. 🍁🦫🫎 | FictionFest.ca
(Also @nptwrites.bsky.social)
Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
https://bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
https://stephen-delaney.com
Moonheart Wolves @moonheartwolves.bsky.social Building the world of MOONHEART — a xenofiction wolf fantasy
Five packs. Broken moon. A magic that remembers. Follow along for worldbuilding, sneak peeks, and the occasional chaos.
Which pack are you? 🐺
Story/Art by BixByte
BixByte @bixbyte.bsky.social 37 | She/Her | Bi | Taken @ulare.bsky.social 💕 | Furry 🐺 | Artist 🎨 | Gamer 🎮 | VA 🎤
Art account: @bixbyteart.bsky.social
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bixbyte
ADHD/RSD
Executive Dysfunction
18+ only
🐺💗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/bixbyte8 💗🐺
Julie Ann Hebbes @julieannhebbes.bsky.social A Comedy of Errors: Losing my mind, finding my voice and starting over again
https://www.amazon.com/Comedy-Errors-Julie-Ann-Hebbes-ebook/dp/B0FCD8QZ87/
Rev Robert Irvine @revrobertirvine.bsky.social My hope is in Christ. Saved by grace. Desire to see everyone having the same access to opportunities. I may be forthright but I desire to be compassionate.
DearEditorDotCom @deareditordotcom.bsky.social Deborah Halverson—“The Editor”—posts writing tips, inspirations, news, & alerts when she answers new questions from writers on DearEditor.com
The Gemini Fox @thegeminifox.bsky.social Author of Texas Heat 🔥
Gay romance & erotic fiction
New chapters weekly
Writing: 100% human | Visuals: AI assisted.
Some moments you should walk away from. I write what happens when you don't.
18+ only | TheGeminiFox.substack.com
Dingo Jackson @thedingodaily.com "An almost unimaginable waste of potential!"
- My 3rd Grade Teacher
- 1/3 of The Dingo Weekly Podcast.
- Drives in Eco Mode.
- Can not identify most birds.
Robin Brett Wechsler @robinbwechsler.bsky.social Children's author, freelance editor/writer. Avid reader, walker, voter, museum goer, bird feeder, ice cream eater, ‘80s music listener. Cat lady.
12x12 I Courage to Create I SCBWI member
Writers' Loft member and PBCG leader
2025 PB Rising Stars HM
Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
• https://dark-talk.uk
• https://patreon.com/DarkTalkPod
The Overlord of Books and Authors @books.overlordshop.com We make the Unseen, seen. 100% Hate-free!
Tips welcome: https://ko-fi.com/overlordsvcs
Our Team
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A.C. Bodnar (she/her) @acbodnarart.bsky.social Children’s Author/Illustrator seeking representation
Nerd and Forever DM, drawing whimsical pictures and writing about a robot who loves birds
No AI ever
Authors Against Book Bans
🖤🩶🤍💜 ~ 💙💛🩷
Also on Instagram @acbodnarart
acbodnarart.com
Alan Hylands @alanhylands.com Data nerd and occasional writer (alanhylands.com).
#THFC fan
Elizabeth Botsford @elizabethbotsford.bsky.social Middle grade novel writer. Longlisted, Yeovil Literary Prize 2026. Shortlisted, Jericho Writers Friday Night Live.
Claire Woodend @clairewoodend.bsky.social Budding picture book writer.
CANSCAIP '25 Long List (x2)
#PBParty '25 Honorable Mention.
Trivia nerd. Would do anything for my cats.
Victoria, BC. 🏳️⚧️
Jacob Hansen @jacobhansenwrites.bsky.social Repped by Sorcha Fairbank
#SCBWI member
#chucklechallenge ‘24 winner
#kidlit Author
Indianapolis
W.D.Kilpack III, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Author @wdkilpackiii.bsky.social Award-winning author with 53 book awards. Sci-fi novella, Pale Face, is in movie development. Qualified to represent USA in Greco-Roman wrestling. Taught college for 25 years. Married to HS sweetheart. Lives in Utah.
ROCKY LASTER🌱🦍 @rockylaster.bsky.social Feral Alaskan Hoosier. 17% Sasquatch DNA. High Priestess of the Leguminati 🫘. Allegedly Afraid of🐀 Mice. Watermelon Enthusiast 🍉. Awesome Dad🎖. Adoring Husband. Impossibly Humble. Susceptible to Flattery, 🥑's, and Wizardry. Balding Vegan Earthling 🌎
Molly Haniszewski @mollyhaniszewski.bsky.social Website: https://mollyhaniszewski.com/
(she/her, they/them)
📖 Queer, Nonbinary, AuDHD Author living in Montana
📚 BEYOND THE BORDER FOREST
📖 THE SOUL THIEF coming in 2026
https://linktr.ee/mollyhaniszewski
Scott Wolf -- Kidlit author @scottwolfwriter.bsky.social Writer of #picturebooks and #MG for kids. Seeking representation. Member of #SCBWI and Storyteller Academy. 2023 Kids' Choice Kidlit Writing Contest Finalist. Proud father/supporter of a nonbinary child and a child with cerebral palsy.
MornaSG.bsky.social @mornasg.bsky.social Works at authoring and illustrating. Bibliophile through and through. Lover of outdoors, animals, the underdog and both classic and modern children’s lit.
Alexandra Z. Lazar @alexandrazlazar.bsky.social ✨Author. Disneyphile. Animal lover. Fairy tale aficionado. Photographer. Holiday fan.
📚Writes YA, MG & kids’ fiction (including WFH projects for Disney)
📱Instagram: @alexandrazlazar
👩🏻💻Current project: The Other Fairy Godmother, a MG fairytale reimagining
Melissa Bergum @writingbubbly.bsky.social Kidlit author seeking rep, deaf in one ear, living with chronic migraines, Searchlight Awards 2024 Best Children's Novel Opening Longlistee, SCBWI member, cat wrangler, book dragon, geek
website: melissambergum.wixsite.com/melissabergum
G.G. Sherrill @ggsherrillreads.bsky.social Writer, Aspiring Middle-Grade Novelist, Fan of Nature, Underdogs, Encouraging Boys to Read, Making a Difference.
www.ggsherrill.com
William - Aspiring Literary Agent @willmarstudios.bsky.social '96 Queer living in Chicago!
Illustrator+Designer, Writer, Bookworm and Aspiring Literary Agent
🖋☕️🌈✨️🍉
https://lnk.bio/willmarstudios
‼️🚫 AI / NFT 🚫‼️
Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜